CORNER MARKET WITH RICH FIELD

  Much of my work was begun on an Underwood typewriter.  Then I worked at an antique/second hand store that sold them for a hefty price.  Royals were a fine manual typewriter but they did not command the same awe as an Underwood with the noir detective in black and white or the fedora-hatted newspaper reporter frantic to make a deadline. Energetic intent was required to make the keys strike the paper.  Wrote some strong volumes this way.  Then I graduated to a Remington  electric and it slowed me down considerably.  One little slip and the entire carriage whisks away brrrrrrrrp with duplication of error.  Never mind that 'white out' applied with a brush or white correction tape took extra time.  With the Underwood this was a deliberate process and part of the craft.  With the Remington electric, I held the correction white out while a key slapped up painfully to bruise my finger.  Writing became cries of anguish and despair. I began this little paper as an explanation and excus